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Beto is operating a massive GOTV with a focus on minority neighborhoods, he's doing fine, we can all leave him alone.
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Nov 2, 2020 15:42
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smoobles posted:Beto is operating a massive GOTV with a focus on minority neighborhoods, he's doing fine, we can all leave him alone. I love the fact that his bumper stickers act as a beacon that whoever owns the car will have a similar take on politics. Saw it on my new neighbor's car and sighed a sigh of relief.
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Nov 2, 2020 15:45
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https://mobile.twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1323272815781552128 I didn’t know I couldn’t do that
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Nov 2, 2020 15:56
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Nah, Beto ran a flawless senate campaign. Texas was just not ready for him. His presidential campaign was doomed from the start, though. The gun and cursing thing were a failed ploy to stay relevant. He should have never listened to the siren calls to make a presidential run, but here we are. It's possible (though still unlikely) he would have won against Cornyn this year, but at least the best thing he did (energizing voters in 2018 and getting chudges out of Harris co., etc.) is less necessary this cycle (cause people are energized anyway), and he's actually been helping out the last month too.
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Nov 2, 2020 16:01
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Bioshuffle posted:This post illustrates my point. They're stereotyped and attacked. The truth is most Trump voters are middle class boomers. Both of my parents are voting for him and so is everyone attending their church. My dad drives a Tesla, and not a 4x4. They wear masks when they're in public. 'you don't get it, my parents are supporting trump, they can't be selfish boomer assholes, ergo the shy trump voter that's never been proven as true must actually be true'. Like, poo poo dude I don't even think we'll go proper blue state this election but the whole 'what about the shy trump voters' has been disproven tons of ways.
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Nov 2, 2020 16:14
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Nov 2, 2020 16:15
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sexpig by night posted:'you don't get it, my parents are supporting trump, they can't be selfish boomer assholes, ergo the shy trump voter that's never been proven as true must actually be true'. The dude you are replying to is a straight up troll, in the classic, “saying fake bullshit to stir up poo poo” sense. I'd implore my friends here to ignore him. Indeed he is a Calm Hitlerer
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Nov 2, 2020 16:16
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sexpig by night posted:they can't be selfish boomer assholes I never said they weren't selfish boomer assholes. I was just pointing out not all Trump supporters are outspoken maniacs who drive around on highways trying to Mad Max the Biden bus. Here's an article about the "shy Trump voter" phenomenon. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/29/2020-polls-trump-biden-prediction-accurate-2016-433619 Bioshuffle fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Nov 2, 2020 |
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Nov 2, 2020 16:22
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 Bit different response than what cops do with BLM protests.
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Nov 2, 2020 16:26
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https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1323283153805484032 My man cannot let this go
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Nov 2, 2020 16:28
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zoux posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1323283153805484032 They are on camera ramming one of the Biden supporter's vehicles. I can't believe we may get four more years of a president who is advocating for literal domestic terrorists. What a timeline.
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Nov 2, 2020 16:29
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Bioshuffle posted:I never said they weren't selfish boomer assholes. I was just pointing out not all Trump supporters are outspoken maniacs who drive around on highways trying to Mad Max the Biden bus. They're still lovely people that need to be outnumbered, not coddled. Look at Harris County for a blueprint on what needs to be done across the country.
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Nov 2, 2020 16:30
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saintonan posted:They're still lovely people that need to be outnumbered, not coddled. Look at Harris County for a blueprint on what needs to be done across the country. Are you talking about the blatant voter suppression in the form of limiting ballot boxes? I did mail in voting this year, and I am really pissed off that Texas is one of a handful of states that don't offer ballot tracking.
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Defund the police - wait we did that already ReidRansom posted:When are we expecting this ruling on the drive through votes? https://twitter.com/jsmccullou/status/1323288705411485697 zoux fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Nov 2, 2020 |
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Nov 2, 2020 16:32
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Bioshuffle posted:Are you talking about the blatant voter suppression in the form of limiting ballot boxes? I did mail in voting this year, and I am really pissed off that Texas is one of a handful of states that don't offer ballot tracking. Harris County massively increased its budget for running elections, from like $4 million to $31 million. As a result, they're able to have huge, well run early voting sites, including a few 24-hour sites during the last week of the early voting sites. As you'd expect, turnout has been massive, with thousands of people voting that never voted before in their lives. I'm sure some aspect of that motivation is Trump, but general campaigns to increase voting, especially to infrequent voters, has been nothing short of an unqualified success, and needs to be copied in cities everywhere across the country.
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Nov 2, 2020 16:47
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saintonan posted:Harris County massively increased its budget for running elections, from like $4 million to $31 million. As a result, they're able to have huge, well run early voting sites, including a few 24-hour sites during the last week of the early voting sites. As you'd expect, turnout has been massive, with thousands of people voting that never voted before in their lives. I'm sure some aspect of that motivation is Trump, but general campaigns to increase voting, especially to infrequent voters, has been nothing short of an unqualified success, and needs to be copied in cities everywhere across the country. All of this, by the way, was at least partially caused by Beto's run increasing turnout enough to get the local Harris County folks elected (like Hidalgo, and ousting Stan Stanart)
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Nov 2, 2020 16:54
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Yall are gonna want to sit down for this one https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1323291894135271424
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Nov 2, 2020 16:56
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Lines were insane around Houston for the primary though. Either they learned a lot from that or it was malice pick whatever fits your views! Politics!
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No Safe Word posted:All of this, by the way, was at least partially caused by Beto's run increasing turnout enough to get the local Harris County folks elected (like Hidalgo, and ousting Stan Stanart) Yeah. It’s very popular to trash Beto in D&D for making an ill advised Presidential run, but his run against Cruz set the stage for where the Texas race is now. He energized and got a ton of voters registered, and despite losing had a ton of coattails helping many local downballot candidates to win, with big knock on effects for election access around the state. It’s been a huge net positive.
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zoux posted:Ugh how many IGs has this appeared on This was a League of Women Voters Austin Area project for GOTV, so I'm just gonna say it's great. Charlz Guybon posted:Didn't Obama encourage him? Hard to resist the previous two President from your party telling you to give it a shot. I always say this, too many people, including higher ups, were pushing Beto to run for President, then the same folks acted like he ran with no encouragement when he failed. It was a bad idea, but it wasn't his bad idea alone.
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Zwabu posted:Yeah. It’s very popular to trash Beto in D&D for making an ill advised Presidential run, but his run against Cruz set the stage for where the Texas race is now. He energized and got a ton of voters registered, and despite losing had a ton of coattails helping many local downballot candidates to win, with big knock on effects for election access around the state. It’s been a huge net positive. But...he couldn't even beat the dastard Ted Cruz
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Bioshuffle posted:They are on camera ramming one of the Biden supporter's vehicles. I can't believe we may get four more years of a president who is advocating for literal domestic terrorists. What a timeline. Please. He was advocating domestic terrorists before he ever took office. There's weird things to explore about people being shy about their political views on issues or whatever, but Trump has literally become the figurehead for a movement bent on demolishing what's left of American democracy. They've built up a framework of justification by conjuring mostly fictional atrocities of their enemies. They're relying on a broader contingency of people who have the lies and truths cancel out and mostly just care about something a lesser degree of evil like tax cuts for the wealthy or another incremental decrease of freedoms for women or minorities. Mistaken Frisbee posted:I always say this, too many people, including higher ups, were pushing Beto to run for President, then the same folks acted like he ran with no encouragement when he failed. It was a bad idea, but it wasn't his bad idea alone. The democrats put out a call for candidates because the person who had spent forever trying to lay the groundwork for a presidency failed miserably after finally getting a shot, and then they shitcanned everybody they called up because they were too terrified of Bernie. I really have no idea what the party leadership is like, who made whatever backroom deals to get half the candidates to pull out on the race in favor of the fourth runner-up, but it's lovely and counterproductive.
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Nov 2, 2020 17:23
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The 100k ballots hearing started a few minutes ago, anyone know if there's a way to listen in?
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1323304926005452801?s=20 Please remember!
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smoobles posted:The 100k ballots hearing started a few minutes ago, anyone know if there's a way to listen in? I found reference to some call-in number, but inconveniently the actual number to call isn't mentioned. https://twitter.com/elizTrovall/status/1323299827602673664 e: also it apparently kicked everyone who was on https://twitter.com/elizTrovall/status/1323307122109632513
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Bioshuffle posted:This post illustrates my point. They're stereotyped and attacked. The truth is most Trump voters are middle class boomers. Both of my parents are voting for him and so is everyone attending their church. My dad drives a Tesla, and not a 4x4. They wear masks when they're in public. Michael Moore said the same thing in a recent interview - many Trump supporters are middle-class conservatives who doubly don't respond to polls because they don't trust the process or think that the polls are a tool of the deep state. The virus numbers in the Valley are way down, only a handful of deaths per day and on average about 150-200 infections. El Paso is suffering now what we went through in July.
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smoobles posted:The 100k ballots hearing started a few minutes ago, anyone know if there's a way to listen in? eke out posted:btw that federal case the doomposters kept saying was going to result in republicans throwing out the vote...
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Nov 2, 2020 18:21
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https://mobile.twitter.com/ErnestScheyder/status/1323311106539085824 Don't sound good for Hotze and the boys
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IT BURNS posted:Michael Moore said the same thing in a recent interview - many Trump supporters are middle-class conservatives who doubly don't respond to polls because they don't trust the process or think that the polls are a tool of the deep state. Michael Moore also said the Dems were going to do poorly in the midterms.
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Nov 2, 2020 19:14
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There is no evidence that there is a meaningful "shy Trump" vote that is suppressing his poll numbers. Anecdotes about your parents are just that. As for Beto, he got unlucky. In 2016 if you'd told people that Cornyn would be a softer target then Cruz, no one would have believed you. And if he'd run back to back and still lost (as MJ Hegar likely will) he'd be tarred forever as a two-time loser. At least now, if Biden wins here, Beto gets some credit and a possible executive post.
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Many Trump supporters are "middle class boomers" yeah. Sure. But if cornered or in the right situation (usually just when they assume you are like-minded) they will pull the mask off. I'm a generic looking white guy in a very conservative part of the state in a conservative profession and I can't tell you how many times I have heard, otherwise average looking, people come out and say some truly vile poo poo. There were plenty of "middle class boomers" that voted for Trump in 20116 that aren't Y'all Queda, but those people are gone. In 2016 you could (though I personally disagree about this) ignore the racist, sexist, etc. poo poo from Trump and be voting against HRC or for tax cuts or whatever generic Republican reason. If you're voting for Trump in 2020 you're a true blue MAGA cultist bar none.
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Pobrecito posted:Many Trump supporters are "middle class boomers" yeah. Sure. quote:But if cornered or in the right situation (usually just when they assume you are like-minded) they will pull the mask off. It doesn't matter which candidate you are supporting. People who advocate theft and violence belong in the same class of idiots as the domestic terrorists who tried to run the Biden bus off of the road. In addition, Trump supporters aren't the only ones ignoring masks. In fact, I posted a video a while back, of BLM protestors crowding a ballot box drop off without wearing masks and yelling loudly. That would terrify me. Isn't that the textbook definition of voter intimidation? I'm not saying any of your points are without validity, but I think it's important to assess the situation from an unbiased perspective, and realize there are extremists on both ends of the spectrum. The majority of voters (aka the ones who will make a difference in this election) are going to be boring suburban dwelling middle class boomers. They're the ones who need to be convinced to vote for the other ticket, but yelling at them and accusing them of being white supremacists is not the way to do it. I did find the voter turn out map that was posted earlier interesting though. It will be interesting to see what happens on election day. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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There is literally no difference between racists beating the poo poo out of black people for being black and antiracists beating the poo poo out of racists, actually.
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Nov 2, 2020 19:49
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I loving told y'all, please have some loving forebearance
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Bioshuffle posted:I'm not saying any of your points are without validity, but I think it's important to assess the situation from an unbiased perspective, and realize there are extremists on both ends of the spectrum. The majority of voters (aka the ones who will make a difference in this election) are going to be boring suburban dwelling middle class boomers. They're the ones who need to be convinced to vote for the other ticket, but yelling at them and accusing them of being white supremacists is not the way to do it. Please don't paraphrase Trump's Charlottesville speech, thank you. (IK note: that post has been queued up for a harsher punishment as well). Seven Hundred Bee fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Nov 2, 2020 |
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Update from the San Marcos PD on the Biden bus incident: we were too busy to provide a police escort, and also the F-150s covered in Trump flags are the real victims here https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1323334315741188097 e: also I'm trying to follow the Harris County drive-in vote hearing on Twitter but it's very confused because apparently the press can only listen in over a phone being held up against a speaker. People in my timeline seem to think the judge is leaning against tossing out existing votes, but towards shutting down any drive-in locations during tomorrow's voting. Blotto_Otter fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Nov 2, 2020 |
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